Second International meeting of Cave Photographers 2013
Louis Torelli
Louis Torelli, is currently the 18th President of the Grotte della Societá Alpina delle Giulie (Julian Alpine Cave Society) Commission. He was born in Adelaide (Australia), on May 1, 1958. In the '70s he became part of "Boegan", and worked together with a group of young people who revolutionized the speleological progression from aluminium ladders to ropes, utilizing the American method (Gibbs) to then adopt French techniques. During this period he worked for the regional cadastre mapping the caves of Friuli Venezia Giulia. In 1984 he oversaw the organization for the permanent exhibition L’Uomo e la grotta (Man and the cave) at the Museum of Speleology at Grotta Gigante. During the 1980s and 1990s, he participated in all the explorative campaigns in Italy (Canin, Tuscany, Campania, Calabria, Stufe of S.Calogero in Siciliy, Marguareis) and abroad (Mexico, Yugoslavia, Austria). In 1982/83 he interrupted this activity due to professional reasons that took him to Mozambique. Here he becomes interested in photography and publishes various articles not only in specialized journals but also in national journals such as “Alp” or “La rivista della Montagna”. After 1995 he was directly involved in entering important caves such as “Pier San Martin” in France and the BU 56 (Illamina’ko Ateak) on the Spanish Pyrenees. He also explored the largest caves of the triestine Karst. From 2008 onwards his main commitments have been in Albania, Slovenia and Sicily. He worked as a volunteer at the CNSAS until 2010 and is a member of the College and Speleological guide of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region since 2002. As well as being amongst one of the founders of the magazine Progressione in 1978, he was also its Managing Editor from 2001 to 2008. Contributor to various magazines, he currently has sixty speleological publications to his credit. His last presidential activities for the Cave Commission E. Boegan consisted of promoting an important conference on the subterranean river Timavo (2010) together with the University of Trieste – Department of Geosciences, and organizing the 21st National Congress of Speleology held at Trieste in 2011. Together with “Monte Analogo” he organizes the Alpi Giulia Cinema festival held every year in Trieste.
Organization helpers
Alessandra Carnevali
secretary
Venezia - Gruppo Speleologico San Marco assistant photographer
Asia & Alex Danieli
Leprechauns
Armando Lazzari
Venezia - Gruppo Speleologico San Marco
assistant photographer
top model
Massimo Arvali
Venezia - Gruppo Speleologico San Marco
assistant photographer
Alessandra Geraci
Catania -
assistant photographer
Cristiana Cilla & Marcello Vargiu
Cagliari
assistant photographer
Sybille Kilchmann
Bern
Luca Cuttitta
Napoli - La Macchina del Tempo
Francesco Maurano
Summonte, Avellino -
Photographer